Discovery Layer: Ungava

From: Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research <glen.newton_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:31:11 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Ungava is an experimental discovery layer which supports both library
catalog and article level metadata (and full-text) using Lucene as a
back-end.

See http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cistilabswiki/index.php/Ungava

While the two public prototypes include a catalog instance (Colorado
State University) and a small (30k articles) journal article
collection (NRC Research Press), we have internal instances which
include both catalog and article level metadata (and full-text) into a
single interface,  at a much larger scale:
- 25 million SWETS article level metadata
- 6.4 million article level metadata and full-text of all articles
- 1 million catalog records

Ungava serves as an experimental platform on which interesting user
interface, information retrieval and information visualization are
performed. I recently (March 8 2008) presented[1] Ungava at the Next
Generation Library Interfaces Conference in Colorado, as well as past
presentations at the CNI[2] and at COlorado State University.
 http://cuvier.cisti.nrc.ca/~gnewton/events/2008/gnewton_20080314_Denver_nextGenLibInterfaces.ppt
 http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/abstracts/PB-ungava-newton.html

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thanks,

Glen

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